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carol.gayo@sun.comen-usCopyright 2006Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:23:32 +0000Apache Roller BLOGS401ORA6 (20130904125427)https://blogs.oracle.com/carol/entry/html_body_p_so_in#comment-1101286120000Re: FireEngine (Solaris Network Performance) on sun.com!sunay tripathiWed, 24 Nov 2004 08:48:40 +0000Manu,
In answer to your questions:
1) We are not changing on wire protocol in any way.
2) Yes, we are removing exisiting bottlenecks to make it better but the problem is (or was) harder.
Most of the stacks are either simple and designed for single CPU performance or multithreaded and complex and designed for scalability. We had to come up with an architecture which performed on single CPU as well as scaled across 100s of CPUs.
Carol is creating a bigadmin page which will contain the details and white paper etc very soon.
I'll also try to do some posting about details as well.https://blogs.oracle.com/carol/entry/html_body_p_so_in#comment-1100276216000Re: FireEngine (Solaris Network Performance) on sun.com!Manu GargFri, 12 Nov 2004 16:16:56 +0000Thank you Carol,
As I said, I believe a lot in Sun's innovations. You guys really have sound engineering foundation.
I do believe that FireEngine is a cool technology. I was just looking at it from an engineer's point of view. I am just curious about things like:
1. Are you bringing some new concept to Solaris TCP/IP stack?
2. Or, you are removing some existing bottlenecks to make it better.
3. Or, is it that you are just optimizing your code to the best?
There are other things like DTrace, ZFS or Zones which I can appreciate better, because they are somewhat explained in more detail. Probably I can expect similar explanation for FireEngine also in coming days :-)
-Manuhttps://blogs.oracle.com/carol/entry/html_body_p_so_in#comment-1100274562000Re: FireEngine (Solaris Network Performance) on sun.com!Carol GayoFri, 12 Nov 2004 15:49:22 +0000Manu,
This is much more than just a marketing story; this really is cool technology!
The feature story provides a pretty nice overview of FireEngine. Is there something specific that you were looking for? I can pass on your question(s) to one of the engineers who worked on the project.
Also, it's in the works to get the FireEngine white paper out on our public web site, I'll keep you posted.
- Carolhttps://blogs.oracle.com/carol/entry/html_body_p_so_in#comment-1100249454000Re: FireEngine (Solaris Network Performance) on sun.com!Manu GargFri, 12 Nov 2004 08:50:54 +0000Another cool feature. Sun seems to be riding high on innovation. But there is something missing:
You know I saw FireEngine a long time back on Sun's site. But it didn't excite me much, reason being that there are no details on the concept. I cannot see where are you doing changes. How are you getting those kind of results? From an engineer's point of view it really becomes uninteresting.
This way, it just looks like some story for marketing. Though I am great believer in Sun's innovations, but missing details really put me down.
I hope, OpenSolaris will make it better.
-Manu